Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit
ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.
Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.
The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys ict equipment in Norway?
GlobalGov holds 485 ict equipment records from 197 distinct buying organisations in Norway. The most frequent publishers are Sykehusinnkjøp Hf (12 records); Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune (8 records); Statens vegvesen (8 records); Stavanger kommune (8 records); Skatteetaten (7 records); Trøndelag fylkeskommune (7 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 10% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sykehusinnkjøp Hf | 12 | 2.5% |
| Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune | 8 | 1.6% |
| Statens vegvesen | 8 | 1.6% |
| Stavanger kommune | 8 | 1.6% |
| Skatteetaten | 7 | 1.4% |
| Trøndelag fylkeskommune | 7 | 1.4% |
What are ict equipment contracts worth in Norway?
249 of the 485 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.9M and the largest single published value is $408.5M. By size, 1 under $100k, 77 between $100k and $1M, 109 between $1M and $10M, 62 above $10M. The remaining 236 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 1 | 0.4% |
| between $100k and $1M | 77 | 31% |
| between $1M and $10M | 109 | 44% |
| above $10M | 62 | 25% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ict equipment tenders in Norway?
Across the 21 Norway ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 38. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are ict equipment tenders published in Norway?
Norway publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 85 in the last twelve months. That is 102% more than the 42 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 178, spread across 58 separate months of activity since 24 April 2018. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Norway compare with other ict equipment markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, Norway ranks 15th by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 485 here). Within Norway itself, ict equipment is the 17th largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Norway ict equipment records on this page come from?
These 485 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (485). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Ict Equipment tenders in Norway
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical ict equipment notice in Norway is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Norway – Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages – Framework agreement IT and network equipment
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